TY - CHAP A1 - Ahlbrink, N. A1 - Alexopoulos, Spiros A1 - Andersson, J. A1 - Belhomme, B. A1 - Teixeira Boura, Cristiano José A1 - Gall, J. A1 - Hirsch, T. T1 - viCERP - the Virtual Institute of Central Receiver Power Plant T2 - MATHMOD 2009 - 6th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling : February 11 - 13, 2009, Vienna, Austria. ARGESIM Report. No. 35 Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3-901608-35-3 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rau, Christoph A1 - Alexopoulos, Spiros A1 - Breitbach, Gerd A1 - Hoffschmidt, Bernhard A1 - Latzke, Markus A1 - Sattler, Johannes, Christoph T1 - Transient simulation of a solar-hybrid tower power plant with open volumetric receiver at the location Barstow JF - Energy procedia : proceedings of the SolarPACES 2013 International Conference N2 - In this work the transient simulations of four hybrid solar tower power plant concepts with open-volumetric receiver technology for a location in Barstow-Daggett, USA, are presented. The open-volumetric receiver uses ambient air as heat transfer fluid and the hybridization is realized with a gas turbine. The Rankine cycle is heated by solar-heated air and/or by the gas turbine's flue gases. The plant can be operated in solar-only, hybrid parallel or combined cycle-only mode as well as in any intermediate load levels where the solar portion can vary between 0 to 100%. The simulated plant is based on the configuration of a solar-hybrid power tower project, which is in planning for a site in Northern Algeria. The meteorological data for Barstow-Daggett was taken from the software meteonorm. The solar power tower simulation tool has been developed in the simulation environment MATLAB/Simulink and is validated. Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2014.03.157 SN - 1876-6102 VL - 49 SP - 1481 EP - 1490 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Puppe, Michael A1 - Giuliano, Stefano A1 - Frantz, Cathy A1 - Uhlig, Ralf A1 - Schumacher, Ralph A1 - Ibraheem, Wagdi A1 - Schmalz, Stefan A1 - Waldmann, Barbara A1 - Guder, Christoph A1 - Peter, Dennis A1 - Schwager, Christian A1 - Teixeira Boura, Cristiano José A1 - Alexopoulos, Spiros A1 - Spiegel, Michael A1 - Wortmann, Jürgen A1 - Hinrichs, Matthias A1 - Engelhard, Manfred A1 - Aust, Michael T1 - Techno-economic optimization of molten salt solar tower plants JF - AIP Conference Proceedings art.no. 040033 N2 - In this paper the results of a techno-economic analysis of improved and optimized molten salt solar tower plants (MSSTP plants) are presented. The potential improvements that were analyzed include different receiver designs, different designs of the HTF-system and plant control, increased molten salt temperatures (up to 640°C) and multi-tower systems. Detailed technological and economic models of the solar field, solar receiver and high temperature fluid system (HTF-system) were developed and used to find potential improvements compared to a reference plant based on Solar Two technology and up-to-date cost estimations. The annual yield model calculates the annual outputs and the LCOE of all variants. An improved external tubular receiver and improved HTF-system achieves a significant decrease of LCOE compared to the reference. This is caused by lower receiver cost as well as improvements of the HTF-system and plant operation strategy, significantly reducing the plant own consumption. A novel star receiver shows potential for further cost decrease. The cavity receiver concepts result in higher LCOE due to their high investment cost, despite achieving higher efficiencies. Increased molten salt temperatures seem possible with an adapted, closed loop HTF-system and achieve comparable results to the original improved system (with 565°C) under the given boundary conditions. In this analysis all multi tower systems show lower economic viability compared to single tower systems, caused by high additional cost for piping connections and higher cost of the receivers. REFERENCES Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5067069 VL - 2033 IS - Issue 1 PB - AIP Publishing CY - Melville, NY ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Alexopoulos, Spiros A1 - Hoffschmidt, Bernhard T1 - Solarthermische Kraftwerke mit thermischen Speichern JF - Chemie Ingenieur Technik. 82 (2010), H. 9 Y1 - 2010 SN - 1522-2640 N1 - Special Issue: ProcessNet-Jahrestagung 2010 und 28. Jahrestagung der Biotechnologen V9.01 [Abstract des Vortrags] SP - 1606 EP - 1606 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Alexopoulos, Spiros A1 - Hoffschmidt, Bernhard T1 - Solar tower power plant in Germany and future perspectives of the development of the technology in Greece and Cyprus JF - Renewable Energy . 35 (2010), H. 7 Y1 - 2010 SN - 0960-1481 SP - 1352 EP - 1356 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Alexopoulos, Spiros A1 - Rau, Christoph A1 - Sattler, Johannes, Christoph A1 - Kronhardt, Valentina A1 - Hoffschmidt, Bernhard T1 - Simulation von Solarturmkraftwerken mit offenem volumetrischen Receiver am Standort Italien T2 - Forschung und Entwicklung für solarthermische Kraftwerke : 14. Kölner Sonnenkolloquium Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2011, im Auditorium des Campus Jülich der FH Aachen : Kurzfassungen der Vorträge und Poster Y1 - 2011 SP - 4 S. PB - DLR CY - Köln ER - TY - CHAP A1 - El Moussaoui, Noureddine A1 - Kassmi, Khalil A1 - Alexopoulos, Spiros A1 - Schwarzer, Klemens A1 - Chayeb, Hamid A1 - Bachiri, Najib T1 - Simulation studies on a new innovative design of a hybrid solar distiller MSDH alimented with a thermal and photovoltaic energy T2 - Materialstoday: Proceedings Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2021.03.115 SN - 2214-7853 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Alexopoulos, Spiros A1 - Hoffschmidt, Bernhard A1 - Rau, Christoph A1 - Schmitz, M. A1 - Schwarzbözl, P. A1 - Pomp, Stefan T1 - Simulation results for a hybridized operation of a gas turbine or a burner for a small solar tower power plant T2 - SolarPACES 2010 : the CSP Conference: electricity, fuels and clean water from concentrated solar energy ; 21 to 24 September 2010, Perpignan, France Y1 - 2010 SP - 82 EP - 83 PB - Soc. OSC CY - Saint Maur ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Alexopoulos, Spiros A1 - Hoffschmidt, Bernhard A1 - Rau, Christoph A1 - Schwarzbözl, Peter T1 - Simulation results for a hybridization concept of a small solar tower power plant T2 - SolarPACES 2009 : electricity, fuels and clean water powered by the sun ; 15 - 18 September 2009, Berlin, Germany ; the 15th SolarPACES conference ; proceedings Y1 - 2009 SN - 9783000287558 PB - Deutsches Zentrum f. Luft- u. Raumfahrt CY - Stuttgart ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kronhardt, Valentina A1 - Alexopoulos, Spiros A1 - Reißel, Martin A1 - Latzke, Markus A1 - Rendon, C. A1 - Sattler, Johannes, Christoph A1 - Herrmann, Ulf T1 - Simulation of operational management for the Solar Thermal Test and Demonstration Power Plant Jülich using optimized control strategies of the storage system T2 - Energy procedia Y1 - 2015 SN - 1876-6102 SP - 1 EP - 6 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Alexopoulos, Spiros A1 - Hoffschmidt, Bernhard A1 - Rau, Christoph A1 - Sattler, Johannes, Christoph T1 - Simulation of hybrid solar tower power plants T2 - 30th ISES Biennial Solar World Congress 2011 : Kassel, Germany, 28 August - 2 September 2011. Vol. 5 Y1 - 2012 SP - 4044 EP - 4050 PB - Curran CY - Red Hook, NY ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Alexopoulos, Spiros T1 - Simulation model for the transient process behaviour of solar aluminium recycling in a rotary kiln JF - Applied Thermal Engineering Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2015.01.007 SN - 1359-4311 N1 - Autor im Original: Spiridon O. Alexopoulos VL - 78 SP - 387 EP - 396 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Alexopoulos, Spiros A1 - Kluczka, Sven A1 - Vaeßen, Christiane A1 - Roeb, M. A1 - Neises, M. T1 - Scenario development for efficient methanol production using CO2 and solar energy T2 - Eurosun 2012 : Solar energy for a brighter future : conference proceedings : Rijeka, 18.-22.09.2012 Y1 - 2012 SP - ID 99 CY - Rijeka ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kluczka, Sven A1 - Eckstein, Julian A1 - Alexopoulos, Spiros A1 - Vaeßen, Christiane A1 - Roeb, Martin T1 - Process simulation for solar steam and dry reforming JF - Energy procedia : Proceedings of the SolarPACES 2013 International Conference N2 - In co-operation with the German Aerospace Center, the Solar-Institut Jülich has been analyzing the different technologies that are available for methanol production from CO2 using solar energy. The aim of the project is to extract CO2 from industrial exhaust gases or directly from the atmosphere to recycle it by use of solar energy. Part of the study was the modeling and simulating of a methane reformer for the production of synthesis gas, which can be operated by solar or hybrid heat sources. The reformer has been simplified in such a way that the model is accurate and enables fast calculations. The developed pseudo-homogeneous one- dimensional model can be regarded as a kind of counter-current heat exchanger and is able to incorporate a steam reforming reaction as well as a dry reforming reaction. Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2014.03.092 SN - 1876-6102 (E-Journal) VL - 49 SP - 850 EP - 859 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hoffschmidt, Bernhard A1 - Alexopoulos, Spiros T1 - Perspektiven für Solarthermische Kraftwerke im Sonnengürtel T2 - Energiewende : Aspekte, Optionen, Herausforderungen : Vorträge auf der DPG-Frühjahrstagung Arbeitskreis Energie in der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft Berlin, 26. bis 28. März 2012 / hrsg. von Hardo Bruhns Y1 - 2012 SP - 81 EP - 93 PB - DPG CY - Baf Honnef ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Alexopoulos, Spiros A1 - Breitbach, Gerd A1 - Hoffschmidt, Bernhard A1 - Stobbe, P. T1 - Optimization of the geometry of porous SiC ceramic filtering modules using numerical methods JF - Developments in porous, biological and geopolymer ceramics : a collection of papers presented at the 31st International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, January 21 - 26, 2007, Daytona Beach, Florida ; [papers presented at the Symposium on Porous Ceramics: Novel Developments and Applications] / ed.: Manuel Brito ... Vol. ed.: Jonathan Salem ... The American Ceramics Society Y1 - 2008 SN - 9780470196403 N1 - Ceramic engineering and science proceedings ; 28,9 SP - 95 EP - 104 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken, NJ ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Alexopoulos, Spiros A1 - Breitbach, Gerd A1 - Hoffschmidt, Bernhard T1 - Optimization of the channel form geometry of porous ReSiC ceramic membrane modules T2 - Proceedings / International Conference & Exhibition for Filtration and Separation Technology, FILTECH 2009 : October 13 - 15, 2009, Wiesbaden, Germany. Vol. 2 Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3-941655-36-2 SP - 686 EP - 693 PB - Filtech Exhibitions Germany CY - Meerbusch ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Sattler, Johannes, Christoph A1 - Caminos, Ricardo Alexander Chico A1 - Ürlings, Nicolas A1 - Dutta, Siddharth A1 - Ruiz, Victor A1 - Kalogirou, Soteris A1 - Ktistis, Panayiotis A1 - Agathokleous, Rafaela A1 - Jung, Christian A1 - Alexopoulos, Spiros A1 - Atti, Vikrama Nagababu A1 - Teixeira Boura, Cristiano José A1 - Herrmann, Ulf T1 - Operational experience and behaviour of a parabolic trough collector system with concrete thermal energy storage for process steam generation in Cyprus T2 - AIP Conference Proceedings Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0029278 IS - 2303 SP - 140004-1 EP - 140004-10 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Göttsche, Joachim A1 - Alexopoulos, Spiros A1 - Dümmler, Andreas A1 - Maddineni, S. K. T1 - Multi-Mirror Array Calculations With Optical Error N2 - The optical performance of a 2-axis solar concentrator was simulated with the COMSOL Multiphysics® software. The concentrator consists of a mirror array, which was created using the application builder. The mirror facets are preconfigured to form a focal point. During tracking all mirrors are moved simultaneously in a coupled mode by 2 motors in two axes, in order to keep the system in focus with the moving sun. Optical errors on each reflecting surface were implemented in combination with the solar angular cone of ± 4.65 mrad. As a result, the intercept factor of solar radiation that is available to the receiver was calculated as a function of the transversal and longitudinal angles of incidence. In addition, the intensity distribution on the receiver plane was calculated as a function of the incidence angles. KW - solar process heat KW - concentrating collector KW - raytracing KW - point-focussing system Y1 - 2019 SP - 1 EP - 6 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Alexopoulos, Spiros A1 - Rau, Christoph A1 - Hoffschmidt, Bernhard A1 - Breitbach, Gerd A1 - Latzke, Markus T1 - Modelling and validation of a transient heat recovery steam generator of the solar tower power plant Juelich T2 - Eurosun 2012 : Solar energy for a brighter future : conference proceedings : Rijeka, 18.-22.09.2012 Y1 - 2012 SP - ID 97 CY - Rijeka ER -